Paul Thomas Abbott

Paul Thomas Abbott (born 12 July 1986 in Dorchester, England) is a British poet educated at , Oxford University. Abbott won the Newdigate Prize in 2006, as a first-year student reading English. He was the President of the undergraduate Oxford University Poetry Society for 2006 Michaelmas term. Abbott edited the magazine Oxford Poetry in 2007.
His long poem FLOOD was published as a pamphlet in 2008 by Clutag Press with illustrations by Gail McNeillie. An excerpt of FLOOD was published in a Clutag Press new journal called Archipelago. Abbott read this excerpt aloud in the Divinity School and Convocation House of the Bodleian Library on October 9, 2007, alongside other readings.
FLOOD attracted mainly positive and curious media coverage after publication. In online reviews section of Poetry Matters, contributor Ben Wilkinson pronounced: "Along with the poem’s curious layout - mostly justified text in a single narrow column, making it seem like some weird newspaper article cut and pasted into a scrap book from a nightmarish future - it is these novel features that make FLOOD such a bizarre and unusual read."

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